Seeing as how Obama misses over half of his national security meetings (including his meeting on the day of the attack), and seeing as how Obama refused to send a Marine detachment to help after it was requested; yes, yes he is to blame. Never mind the fact that if Obama didn't start a meaningless war in North Africa in the first place, we wouldn't have to worry about this.

“Talking points” prepared by the CIA on Sept. 15, the same day that Rice taped three television appearances, support her description of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate as a reaction to Arab anger about an anti-Muslim video prepared in the United States. According to the CIA account, “The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the U.S. Consulate and subsequently its annex. There are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations.”

The CIA document went on: “This assessment may change as additional information is collected and analyzed and as currently available information continues to be evaluated.” This may sound like self-protective boilerplate, but it reflects the analysts’ genuine problem interpreting fragments of intercepted conversation, video surveillance and source reports.

What bothers me most from this is what else has come out of the GOP witch hunt to blame Obama. Issa managed to reveal CIA operations in Benghazi during his televised hearings. Sources now say that Libyan informants working with the US are in danger due to the GOP investigations and leaks.

I think there's a very real chance that some of the administration obfuscation comes from not wanting to reveal sensitive information and, much worse, the GOP knows this and knows that Obama can't respond fully and is using this to a campaign advantage at the cost of national security.

"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin

You know, kinda what Obama's whole foreign policy has been based on for the last 3+ years (if we're nice to them, they'll be nice to us)?

I thought it was kill anyone we don't particularly like with unmanned drones.

I don't think having 5, 10, or 15 agents in a building would have any noticeable effect on how the people in lybia thought of the US. I'd imagine pretty much all of them know as much about the security arrangements inside the embassy as most Americans. IE: none.

Here's a questions, how many security people does Canada have in the our embassy in the states? What message are we sending with that presence?

Depends on how many bullets those 15 agents have. I'm guessing you've never heard of the alamo. Do you think the ambassador wished he had an ak while those muslims were ripping the flesh from his bones?

Wait, your posts can actually be rated down to "unrated"? I feel cheated...

Yes, we can make him disappear; he'll just come back again in a few months.

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publiusvarus wrote:

we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.

It helps when you have a tiny post count and get yourself sub-d' right off the bat.

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publiusvarus wrote:

we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.

I guess you have a point.. When I first started, I cared about Karma to an extent that after I got bombed in RDM-melee threads, I would create an "awesome" post to balance out the rate downs. I actually lasted a really long time before being "default". I noticed after reading my old posts, people would actually go back and rate them up after the fact.